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Operating system look: Snow Leopard

September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

It’s now been close to three weeks since Snow Leopard arrived in stores, and the Internet has now had a chance to go through the entire system and find the good, the bad and the barely changed. I’ve been using it since that time too, and like some of the subtle changes. Since Engadget, Gizmodo [...]

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Category: Macs

Snow Leopard arrives (this Friday)

August 27th, 2009 · No Comments

The time has come for a new Macintosh operating system. Mac OS X 10.6, or Snow Leopard as the cool kids call it, will arrive in stores this coming Friday and bring a host of new features with it. The name of the OS differs very little from 10.5, which was just Leopard, and that [...]

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Category: Thoughts

My MacBook has a broken top case

July 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments

It has happened. After 2 solid years of service, my MacBook has cracked on the top case, in the above picture. I thought I was being careful with my computer, but even with careful usage, it seems that a combination of the monitor spacers and palm pressure cracks the case on the edge. Naturally the [...]

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Category: Hardware

Brief thoughts on iPhone 3.0

June 30th, 2009 · No Comments

The newest version of Apple’s iPhone operating system was released a few weeks ago, and since I made the upgrade to my first-gen iPod touch, I’ve been using the system off and on. It does an excellent job of polishing what was already a very good system. Since I haven’t been using it consistently yet, [...]

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Category: iPod

New stuff at WWDC

June 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Not much comes close to setting the interwebs ablaze than an Apple keynote. Fanboys everywhere were glued to their computer screens yesterday to learn what new things would come out of Cupertino this summer. While the WWDC is a developer’s conference, there were many intriguing announcements that are of interest to the general Mac-using public. [...]

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Category: Macs